The First English Female Aerial Traveller | Science Museum Blog
“For herself, Letitia Ann Sage felt ‘more happy, and infinitely better pleased with my excursion, than I ever was at any former event of my life’. Evidently, her neighbours were equally captivated: “The door is never quiet a single instant’”
Image: Engraving by Rigaud of George Biggin, Mrs Hoare and Vincenzo Lunardi in a balloon/ Public Domain